Fauci shrugged off Trump’s #FireFauci retweet, saying the president ‘could remove me’ but ‘has no intention’ of doing that.

He told C-SPAN on Monday that it was entirely possible for Trump to replace him on the coronavirus task force, but said he had talked to the president afterwards and he “has no intention of doing that.”

The hashtag spread on Sunday after Fauci told CNN that if the US government had taken action against coronavirus sooner, it “could have saved lives.”

The US currently has the most coronavirus cases and deaths in the world.

A New York Times reporter followed coronavirus swabs from a New Jersey drive-thru testing site to a lab hundreds of miles away, and it shows why the testing in the US is still slow and limited.

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Although the US has ramped up its coronavirus testing capacity in recent weeks, the country still lags behind others in testing per capita.

According to figures from the COVID Tracking Project, the US has tested just over 2.9 million people as of April 13, or just about one in every 112 people.

Rukmini Callimachi, a correspondent for The New York Times, followed these tests from the time they are taken by a nurse at a testing facility to the time they are delivered to labs and found a number of roadblocks delaying the diagnostic process.

And even as the US continues to improve its testing capabilities, several mistakes were made early on that have stalled the testing process, which the US is still catching up on.

Trump lashes out at a CBS News reporter after she asks him to clarify what the White House was doing in February to respond to the coronavirus.

Foto: Trump at the coronavirus briefing on April 13.

President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter during the coronavirus briefing on April 13, after the reporter asked him to clarify what he did in response to the coronavirus during the month of February.

“The time that you bought, the argument is that you didn’t use it to prepare hospitals, you didn’t use it to ramp up testing,” CBS News reporter Paula Reid asked. “What did you and your administration do with the time the travel ban bought you?”

“A lot, a lot,” he said, but he failed to provide a list before lambasting Reid and CBS News, calling her a “fake” and claiming the network has a lower approval rating than it ever had before “times, probably, three,” he said.